Who's Online PHP Script 2.0 for your template site

[vk2him]

I now have Version 2 up and running http://wx.theshackbythebeach.com/wx/whos-online.php, its very good  

... two minor things that didn't match the documentation supplied

1) In the "upgrading to 2.0" file, pasting the SQL command into phpmyadmin gave an error that  last_page_url can't have a default value. So I had to change the line from this

`last_page_url`   text NOT NULL default '',

to this for it to work:

  `last_page_url`   text NOT NULL,

2) To get the maps to display, the readme.txt file instructions miss two files needed to be transferred.

Existing documentation:

Step 2)
Upload the following files to your web server where your template site is:
geoip.inc
geoipcity.inc
geoipregionvars.php
images-wo-country-flags (entire folder)

Correct documentation

Step 2)
Upload the following files to your web server where your template site is:
geoip.inc
geoipcity.inc
geoipregionvars.php
wo-worldmap.jpg
wo-pin.jpg
images-wo-country-flags (entire folder)

Well done!!!!

[Billw69]

Chuck,
Check your e-mail. I sent you 2. ignore the first one.

[MCHALLIS]

thanks vk2kim, I will update the distribution with your changes

[andro700]

I tried both and still the same 12/31 from Bill and ALITTLEweird1. I am going to try something else.

Chuck

[mth]

OK all.....new V2 installation up and everything works!

http://relayweather.com/whos-online.php

A couple of questions:
--  I use the narrow css and am forcing the who-is to wide screen per Mike's instruction.  How do I get the body to extend to the right a little further?

-- The map provided for the who-is has the points located way out of position.  Is there something I can adjust?

Once Again, thanks to Mike for his hard work!!
Michael

[jwwd]

Hi Mike

Thank you very much for your hard work on this - its a GREAT script.

www.silkeborg-vejret.dk/english/whos-online.php

But I think there is something wrong with the pinīs on the map - the seem to be wrong placed - does anyone else have that problem?

I visited your whos-online Mike - and here the dots seems to be a bit wrong too

Best regards,

Henrik

[MCHALLIS]

Michael,

You could make a small adjust to your css main copy

Code: [Select]

#main-copy {
  color: black;
  background-color: #C0C0C0;
  text-align: justify;
  line-height: 1.5em;
  margin: 0 0 0 9.5em;
  padding: .5ex .5ex 1em 1em;
  border-left: 1px solid rgb(216,210,195);
  min-height: 1300px;
}

and you are having the msn bot getting stuck on your wuhistory page:
Problem:
I see bots spending several hours on the wuhistory.php page
it looks like they are selecting all the dates from the dropdown selectors:
/wuhistory.php?ID=KILSTRON1&month=6&day=11&year=2006&mode=5&units=B

Solution:
Looks like the bots are "treading water" (getting stuck) in your wuhistory.php page:
/wuhistory.php?ID=KILSTRON1&month=6&day=11&year=2006&mode=5&units=B

You probably need to do something about that problem. Like add Disallow: /wuhistory.php to your robots.txt,
add a meta noindex nofollow <meta name="robots" content="noindex, nofollow" /> to your wuhistory.php
Also, be sure to exclude that page from your Google Sitemap generator (if you have one).

I do not know about the pin locations, it could be errors in the lat & long data or errors in the map I do not know.

[mth]

Hi Mike,

I don't have a robots.txt file.  Can you give me a little insight and how to get one going?

[jwwd]

Hi Michael

A good place to check out is Googles Webmaster Tools - that was what got me going with sitemaps and robots:

http://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/

Best regards,

Henrik

[MCHALLIS]

Version: 2.01 - 03-Jan-2009

- fixed bug in visitor timeouts where if you had deleted a nickname, the visitor would no longer timeout
- fixed bug where random visitor country flags were missing (still might be happening)
- fixed bug where a random worldmap pin was in center of map
- moved all the functions in include-whos-online-settings.php to include-whos-online-header.php
- added setting to allow or disallow image pins for bots on the worldmap
to upgrade from 2.00, replace include-whos-online-page.php, include-whos-online-header.php and include-whos-online-settings.php

Download         
www.642weather.com/weather/scripts/whos-online.zip

[jwwd]

Hi Mike

Thanks - I have it up and running without any problems.

Best regards,

Henrik

[mth]

I've notice statistics in the footer on many users pages.  How do these get incorporated?

[AM1234]

My locations pins are not in their proper locations:

http://www.beamsvillewx.ca/whos-online.php

and why does my one visitor's last url refer to my settings.php?

I am using version 2.1

[MCHALLIS]

edit: oops, double post

[mth]

Mike,

Version 2.1 is up and running fine here!
http://relayweather.com/whos-online.php

Michael